DAB Releases List Of More 'black Spots' For Women

DAB has released a list of ten new places, including a baby care room at a shopping mall, which it says do not provide enough protection for women against upskirt photography.

The list includes places which have glass panels, reflective floors or escalators without sufficient safeguards.

The places named include some crowded areas like a shop in the Elements mall, the shopping centre of China United Centre in North Point, Telford Plaza Phase 2, and MTR stations like Austin and Nam Cheong.

The DAB lawmaker Elizabeth Quat said a baby care room in Windsor House in Causeway Bay could leave breastfeeding mothers vulnerable because it only has a matte glass door without a lock and there's a gap which would allow people to peek inside.

Quat urged the government and the city's shopping centres to review and reconsider redesigning baby care facilities to give mothers more privacy, or even to put in place guidelines on how to design these kinds of facilities.

"We are not asking people not to use any glass walls in their design at all," she told RTHK's Joanne Wong. "We are asking if the escalator wall is totally transparent, can they can cover it halfway by matte plastics.”

Quat said her party has been trying push for improvements in such “black spots” for years.

She said among the places they identified last year, some of them have taken steps to overcome the problems.

The Xiqu Centre for Cantonese opera at the West Kowloon arts hub had taken steps to make glass less transparent by using stickers.

The DAB said it also noticed improvements to the escalators in Elements and the Moko mall in Mong Kok, as well as the glass railings at MTR facilities like Hong Kong, TST East and Tiu Keng Leng stations.